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Compiled from Examiner staff and wire reports

Published 4:00 am, Sunday, May 28, 1995

AH: Woman to be tried in Sonoma guard killing Santa Rosa A Sonoma County judge has ordered Joan Larae Carrafa to be tried on murder and robbery charges for the death of a Loomis armored car guard in the city of Sonoma.

Municipal Judge Knoel Owen ruled Friday that there was enough evidence for the 36-year-old Glen Ellen woman to stand trial on charges of murder with special circumstances in the killing of 34-year-old Loomis guard Rick Price.

Price was shot in the head during an attempted robbery March 28 outside a Bank of America branch.

Prosecutor Alexander McMahon said the district attorney has not decided whether to seek the death penalty for Carrafa. She will be arraigned June 9 in Superior Court.

Her accomplice, William Crouch, died in the shootout. Crouch was shot by a Loomis driver making rounds with Price.

Carrafa is accused of trying to steal a satchel containing $225,000 from Price as he was getting ready to lift the satchel from the back of the Loomis truck before making a bank delivery.

Carrafa was arrested by a Sonoma County sheriff's deputy as she was allegedly getting ready to drive away in a second getaway car.

Arson suspected in

Pittsburg school fire Pittsburg Investigators suspect that a two-alarm fire at Foothill Elementary School may be an arson case, authorities said.

The fire was reported about 5:30 p.m. Saturday and was under control a short time later, a dispatcher with the Contra Costa County Fire Department said.

There were 22 firefighters involved in putting out the blaze. An arson team was investigating.

Pittsburg police said someone may have broken into the school and started the blaze.

CHP reports fatalities

in San Jose, Dublin San Jose Two people were killed in separate accidents in San Jose and Dublin, the Highway Patrol said.

In San Jose, a vehicle was spotted in flames about 11 a.m. Saturday on the shoulder of southbound Interstate 280 north of McLaughlin Avenue. At least one person was reported dead inside the vehicle. The CHP did not know how the car fire started.

In Dublin, a young woman was reported killed when a car went off Interstate 680 and flipped six times around 10:30 a.m. Saturday.

No identities were available in either crash.

BART station closes

after man is killed Fremont The South Hayward BART station was closed for several hours Saturday afternoon after a man was killed after jumping in front of a Fremont-bound train.

Witnesses said the unidentified man jumped from the train platform about 1:30 p.m., said BART police Lt. Pamela Cherry.

The delay was caused by officers waiting for the coroner to remove the body from the tracks.

Bus bridges were set up between Hayward and Union City. Service to San Francisco and Oakland was not affected.

Body of 18-year-old

identified in Oakland Oakland The coroner identified an 18-year-old man who was shot to death during a fight outside a neighborhood market in Oakland as Kevin Gill of Hayward.

Police said the shooting occurred Thursday evening, when two men got into an altercation in a mom-and-pop grocery store in the 2100 block of 90th Avenue; the struggle ended when an unidentified man shot the victim.

Neither of the men were store employees, and police said they did not know how the altercation started.

Police are searching for an 18-year-old man described by witnesses as the shooter.

Man shot by police

in good condition Martinez A 19-year-old man was reported in good condition after he was shot and wounded by deputies after they saw him shoot at a home.

The incident occurred about 8:15 p.m. Friday when two deputies on patrol saw the suspect walking eastbound on the 200 block of California Street, a Contra Costa County sheriff's spokesman said.

The deputies said the suspect, Walton Mize, 19, of Rodeo, fired a handgun once into a home at the intersection of California and Mariposa streets.

When they approached the suspect and told him to drop the gun, he turned toward them, according to police. One of the deputies shot him in the right leg.

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The suspect was taken to Merrithew Memorial Hospital in Martinez.

Police say they do not know why the suspect shot at the house.&lt;

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